# Senior Theses and Advisers
**Source**: https://german.princeton.edu/programs/undergraduate/senior-theses-and-advisers
**Parent**: https://german.princeton.edu/
## Class of 2025
Bella J. Butler\
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Senior Thesis: DISRUPTING THE IMAGE: The Reinstatement of Female Subjectivity in the Work of VALIE EXPORT\
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Adviser: Devin Fore
Lena A. Molyneux\
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Senior Thesis: A Study of Oskar Schlemmer’s Diagrams\
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Adviser: Barbara Nagel
Magnus A. Von Ziegesar\
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Senior Thesis: Resistance and Play in David Benjamin Sherry’s *American Monuments*\
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Adviser: Joel B. Lande
Annie Xiong\
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Senior Thesis: Illustrated Magazines, Ethnographic Museums, and Human Zoos: Contextualizing Hannah Höch’s *Aus einem ethnographischen Museum* Ser\
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Adviser: Brigid Doherty
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No
## Class of 2024
William Daniels\
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Senior Thesis: Neue Ansichten über Bachmanns Malina im Kontext des weiblichen Bildungsromans\
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Advisor: Johannes Wankhammer
John Ehling\
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Senior Thesis: Schreber, Remixed: Four Adaptations of *Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken*\
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Devin Fore
Kristiana Filipov\
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Senior Thesis: Only the Gods Are Real, Mythology and Postmodern Philosophy in Neil Gaiman’s *American Gods*\
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Advisor: Barbara Nagel
Tommy Goulding\
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Senior Thesis: “Die Bandenführer schreiten daher wie Staatsmänner”: Reading Theories of Bonapartism in Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht\
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Advisor:Hal Foster
Ezra Y. Shin\
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Senior Thesis: Two Case Studies in the Cartographicity of Movement\
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Advisor:Susan Morrow
No
No
## Class of 2023
Corinna Brueckner\
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Reimagining the Revival: The Case for a Contemporary Staging of Haydn’s Opera *Der Apotheker*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Charles Murphy\
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Soccer in Germany: On the Power of a National Sport\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Grace Rosenberg\
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The Shmatte Siddur: Tattered Order, Ordered Tatters, And Queering Yiddishkeit\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Ava Vilensky\
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*“Dies Buch ist ausschließlich für die Frau geschrieben”:* Unmasking Gender Ideology in the Health Rhetoric of Bess Mensendieck’s Körperkultur der Frau\
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Advisor: Susan Morrow
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No
## Class of 2022
Julian Chang\
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*“Ideology and Anxiety: Familiarity in Capitalism and the Strangeness Thereof”*\
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Advisor: Johannes Wankhammer
Autumn Martin\
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*“Surrealist Woman, Dismembered Doll, Horror Victim: Hans Bellmer’s Puppe Photographs”*\
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Advisor: Barbara Nagel
Noam Miller\
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*“Wissenschaftlichkeit in Freud: Scientific Reduction and the Ghost of the Entwurf”*\
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Advisor: Brigid Doherty
No
No
## Class of 2021
Molly Banes\
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*“Painting the New Woman: On the Late Weimar Paintings of Lotte Laserstein”* \
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin and Michael Jennings
Adam Bear\
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*A Taxonomy of Trumpism: On the Contemporary Application of ‘fascism’,*\
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Advisor: Adam Oberlin
Christina Chun\
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*“Human as Woman: by Lou Andreas-Salomé: A Translation,*\
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Advisors: Devin Fore and Barbara Nagel
Joshua Judd Porter\
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*Out of the Trenches and into the Factories: Der Arbeiter and Ernst Jünger’s Martial Modernity*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Jason Qu\
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The Κᾰτέχων in Carl Schmitt’s Philosophy of World History *Nonconceptuality, Weaponisation, and Politics of a Metaphorical Constellation*\
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Advisor: Joel Lande
Nicholas Shashkini\
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*Staatsferne, Nichtkommerzialität, and Aufklärung: A Media-political Case Study of the West German Broadcasting System*\
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Advisor: Barbara Nagel
No
No
## Class of 2020
Janice Cheon\
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*“Against the Malaise of Time”: Embodied Fragmentation and the Temporalities of the Dada Creaturely, 1919-1937*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Mason Cox\
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*“Alexander Kluge, Registrations of Capitalist Conditions, and Constructions of History”*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Jaclyn Hovsmith\
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*Making the Future Tense: An Exploration of Sexual Violence and Temporality in Christa Wolf’s Kassandra*\
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Advisors: Inka Muelder-Bach and Barbara Nagel
Thomas A. Jankovic\
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*Pre-figurative Political Strategies for Change in the West German Green Movement from 1968 to 1985*\
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Advisor: Ann Marie Rasmussen
Leland Ko\
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*Method in Madness: A Close Reading of Beethoven’s Late String Quartets from a Performer’s Perspective*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Estibaliz Matulewicz\
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*“What Unites and Divides Humankind?” by Magnus Hirschfeld: A Critical Translation*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Danny Pinto\
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*Zwischen Chilenidad und Ostalgie: Hybridität, Solidarität, und das Fremde:* Chile-DEFA Films as Transnational Sites of Medialized Remembrance\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
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No
## Class of 2019
Hileman, Ryan J.\
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*Störtebeker through the Ages: The Political Afterlife of a Folk Hero*\
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Advisor: Joel Lande
Keiser, William Samuel\
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*Trance Dance, Berlin to Tel Aviv: The Roots of Modern Israeli Dance Aesthetics in Early 20th Century German Dance*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Lawson, Christian Alwyn\
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*The Historical Multi-Image of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD-Trilogie*\
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Advisor: Joseph Vogl
No
No
## Class of 2018
Decitre, Marc\
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*The Ecological Paradox: A Critique of Recent Environmental Discourse*\
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Advisers: Michael Jennings and Thomas Y. Levin
Fleming, Allison\
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*Mediated Bodies: Technologies of Communication and the Human Form Around 1900*\
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Adviser: Devin Fore
Hadley, Spencer\
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*Am Rande des Sagbaren: Rainer Maria Rilkes Sonette an Orpheus, Hugo von Hofmannsthal und der deutsche Stimmungsbegriff*\
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Adviser: Nikolaus Wegmann
Lee, Sang\
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*“At the Gate(s) of Mercy”: Reading Celan’s Jerusalem-Gedichte*\
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Adviser: Michael Wood
Robinson, Alexander\
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*An Ambivalence of Signs: The symbolic, literary, and psychoanalytic in Paul Klee’s 1920 Pandora constellation*\
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Adviser: Brigid Doherty
No
## Class of 2017
Baker, Charles Carr\
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*War is Not an Earthquake: Capitalism, Virtue and Resistance in Mother Courage and her Children*\
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Adviser: Michael Jennings
Casserly, Isabel Lockett\
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*Criminal Chronotopes: The Effect of Crime on Narrative Structure*\
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Adviser: Devin Fore
Knight, Jackson D.\
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*A European Crusade: An Analysis of the Saxon Wars and Charlemagne’s Efforts to Christainize the Pagan Tribes of Medieval Germany*\
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Adviser: Sara S. Poor
Nuckols, Chad Logan\
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*Lifting the Veil of Phantasmagoria: Berliner Kindheit um Neunzehnhundert as a Guide for the Critical Reader*\
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Adviser: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
No
No
## Class of 2016
Albarran, Eleanor\
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*A Modern Art of Education and the Education of Modern Artists: Comparing Waldorf and Bauhaus Pedagogies*\
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Adviser: Michael Jennings
Morris, Colby\
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*Die Flucht in den Rausch: Das Problem des Gehirnprinzips in Gottfried Benns Rönne-Novellen*\
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Adviser: Devin Fore
Nelson, Andrew:\
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*“Auf die Art und Weise kommt alles an” Approaching a Walserian Ethic in Jakob von Gunten*\
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Adviser: Barbara Nagel
Smith, T.J.\
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*Degenerate Aesthetics*\
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Adviser: Devin Fore
Tuckwell, Richard\
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*Heidegger’s Concept of World*\
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Adviser: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
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## Class of 2015
Aupiais, Juan-Jacques\
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*Eros, Mythology, Subjectivity: Topoi in Hölderlin’s Early Odes*\
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Advisor: Joel Lande
Mooney, Philip D.\
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*Er hat es nicht angenommen: Karl Jaspers’ Metaphysical Guilt and Germany’s Modern Sonderweg*\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
O’Neil, Cody Lee\
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*“Die Zeichen meines Morgens”: A Heliographic Account of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra*\
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Advisor: Sarah Pourciau
Pinkerton, Byrd\
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*“Hear Yourself as Others Hear You” On the Aesthetic Politics of Gramophonic Self-Recording*\
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Adviser: Thomas Y. Levin
Veltri, Gerardo\
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*In-Betweens in Middle High German Arthurian Romance*\
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Adviser: Sara S. Poor
Yuen, Hoi Ki\
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*The Idea of Integration: The Naturalisation of Middle Eastern Immigrants in Germany*\
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Advisor: Barbara Nagel
No
## Class of 2014
Burgher, Regina Ann\
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*Melos in Drama: Exploring the Musical Mind through Melodrama in Wagner, Brecht, and Sirk*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Seongcheol, Kim\
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*Theory, Organization and Milieu in the West German Extra-Parliamentary Left, 1966–78*\
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Advisor: Jan-Werner Müller
Kowalski, Jamie\
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*Der Bildungsbergriff im Zeitalter seiner Auflösung: Thomas Mann, Walter Benjamin and the German Tradition of Bildung*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Schwartz, Lauren Isabel\
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*Poetry and Practical Purpose: Literary Encounters with the Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland*\
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Advisor: Sarah Pourciau
Telljohann, Lillian G.\
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*Of Modernity and on Modernity: Explorations of Meaning and Personhood in Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief and Contemporary Literature*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
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No
## Class of 2013
Kerck, Antoine\
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*Germany’s Protestant Ethics and the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis: A Weberian Perspective*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Lebsack, Victoria\
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*The ‘Vremde’ and the Fantastic in “Wolfdietrich”*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Stolzenberg, Stephen\
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*Killer Communications: The Terror Attack as Medium and its Representations through Film*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
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No
## Class of 2012
Hendren, Lieve\
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*Life as Art: Radical Social Change in Nietzsche*\
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Advisor: Christiane Frey
Kurwa, Shelina\
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*Illusions of India: the Distant Shore of the German Imagination*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Reilly, Kelly\
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*Objective Gaze in Nature and the Nature of Objective Gaze: Rilke’s Aesthetics in the Context of Cézanne*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Walsh, Matthew\
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*Society Finds Closeness: Increasing the Cultural Relevance of Opera for Mass Audiences through the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Live in HD’ Broadcasts*\
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Advisor: Christiane Frey
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No
## Class of 2011
Benitez, Robert Loen\
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*The Construction of a Life Worth Living in German Queer Literature: 1919–1933*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Hopkins, Nicole Lynn\
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*Father/Mother/Secret Lover: A Jungian Analysis of Daniel Paul Schreber’s Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Loewenstein, Jacob\
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*Integrest State Support of the Culture Industry from UFA to Media: Televisual Policy to Resist Americanization*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Muenzel, Johannes\
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*The “Private” Detective: Public and Domestic Masculinities in the West German Crime Film of the 1950’s*\
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Advisor: Brian Hanrahan
Parks, Rebecca K.\
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*Painting Politics: George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and the Experience of Germany’s Interwar Art and Politics*\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Ziegler, Jayden\
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*Generalization and Productivity in Morphological Paradigm Gaps: Varying Type Frequency and Competition*\
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Advisor: Adele Goldberg
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No
## Class of 2010
Chaney, Justine Mary\
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*Contorting the Invisible: the Emergence of Corporal Punishment in German Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century*\
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Advisor: Christiane Frey
Chereches, Anca\
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*Combinatory Categorical Grammar and German Local Scrambling*\
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Advisor: James Rankin
Denz, Jacob\
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*‘Wichtig zu Lernen’: Einverständnis and Body Politics in Brecht’s “Lehrstücke”*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Madole, Robert\
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*The Specter of Automation: The Organic and its Limits in Robert Musil’s “Man Without Qualities”*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Porter, Allen\
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*Immanence and Transcendence*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
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No
## Class of 2009
Colgan, Brendan\
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*Nation Branding and National Identity: Making Euros and Sense of German Identity*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Harper, Jason\
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*Datamoshing: Aesthetics of the Glitch*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Kim, Christine\
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*More than Meets the Eye: Connections between Phenomenology and Art*\
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Advisor: Arnd Wedemeyer
Kowen, Michael\
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*Speculations about Speculation (about Speculation): Text as Text, Text as Theory*\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
May-Gamboa, Julio\
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*Navigating the Metropolis: Advertising, the Bauhaus, and Objectification in Weimar Germany*\
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Advisor: Brigid Doherty
Plaku, Bora\
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*Faust as a Political Tool in National Socialism; Faust as a Political Tool in Resistance, with an Example by Klaus Mann*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Schlegel, Christian\
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*Musil, Criticism, Musil-Criticism*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
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No
## Class of 2008
Frankle, Elissa P.\
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*Iher Wege als Deutsche und Juden: Constructions of Identity in Jewish Museums in Bavaria*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Nunan, Timothy\
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*Leopold Schwarzschild, Das Neue Tagebuch and Anti-Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe 1933–1941*\
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Advisor: Anson Rabinbach
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No
## Class of 2007
Burkle, Arthur\
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*Love and Terrorism in Heiner Müller’s “Quartet”*\
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Advisor: Nikolaus Wegmann
Lampert, Marcus\
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*Walter Benjamin’s Fracture Cosmos: A Reading of “Einbahnstrasse”*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Langer, Abigail E.\
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*Verschiedene Gehirne: Medical Observation and Social Self-Destruction in the Poetry and Prose of Gottfried Benn*\
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Advisor: Devin Fore
Stolzenberg, Emily\
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*“Der Sinn von Politik ist Freiheit”: Conceptions of Politics and Freedom in Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt*\
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Advisor: Arnd Wedemeyer
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No
## Class of 2006
Dillon, Maggie Blair\
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*The Threat of the Blur: Stress and Rupture in Gerhard Richter’s ‘October 18, 1977’*\
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Advisor: Brigid Doherty
Fockele, Kenneth E.\
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*The Poetics of Physical Love in Heinrich von Morungen and Walther von der Vogelweide*\
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Advisor: Sara S. Poor
Purdie, Denise Rita\
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*Technische Nothilfe: The Evolution of Perception in the Works of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Walter Benjamin and Robert Musil*\
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Advisor: Michael Jennings
Shimp, Scott\
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*Online Offentlichkeit: A Habermasian Analysis of the Blogosphere*\
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Advisor: Thomas Y. Levin
Voute, Thomas M.\
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*Shields and Swords: Stasi Surveillance through the Use of Informants*\
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Advisor: Walter Hinderer
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